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by terlisimo 589 days ago
The abbreviated story I told was perhaps more dramatic-sounding than it really played out. I didn't just say "Nothing." mic drop walk out :)

The client was satisfied after we owned the mistake, explained that we have a number of measures in place for preventing various mistakes, and that making a test for this particular one doesn't make sense. Like, nothing will prevent me from creating a cron job that does "rm -rf * .o". But lights will start flashing and fixing that kind of blunder won't take long.